Resumen de Wilhelm Benque and the Bremen Bürgerpark
In 1866 the citizens of Bremen started to plan a great communal enterprise, the Bürgerpark, which thanks to public spirit has survived in private custody almost unscathed by the trials and confusions of the times. Responsibility for this most significant example of the German city garden in the middle of the second half of the nineteenth century lay with Wilhelm Benque, whose main gardening achievement it is. "From his very first creative thoughts on the subject", Wilhelm Benque tells us, he regarded the Bürgerpark as his very own work, which he defended against the "interference of unauthorized hands" and would rather have abandoned than have acted against his "better conviction". This highly gifted, self-confident and stubborn man, who followed critically the progress of the park to the end of his life, is the first of a number of private landscape gardeners in Germany.
